Unless fluid is leaking from around the piston I wouldn't replace it. The rubbers you can buy a complete set (front or rear brakes both calipers) for about $15 if you wreck one.

No matter how hard they are in there you will be able to get them out and lube them. I'll tell you about the ones on my race car. They were so rusted up both slider and housing that I couldn't loosen them up on the car with a hammer and I was smacking it hard. The only way I got them to move was by taking the caliper off, putting it in a vise and smacking it with a 4lb sledge hammer. If you have a wire wheel on a bench grinder handy you take the pin to it and shine it right up. If you don't have one handy emery tape works great or even just any sand paper. To get the rubber out just wiggle a small screw driver between the rubber and caliper till it is free. Then use the sand paper on the end of a screw driver and shine it up inside. If you need the rubbers just ask for a caliper kit is what most stores go buy to get those rubbers and in the kit will be some anti rattle clips as well. Use dialectic to lube the sliders when you put it back together.

 

For $40 I can get a lifetime one, if it ever acts up again I just go get a new one.

 

Well all I needed was the caliper and pads. My dad said the pads were ok, but you could tell they got hot and the had hairline cracks in them, so I replaced them. Everything else was ok, checked the rotor for warpage and it's within spec.

 

All good info above!

Yea, only thing with your fix is it's a temporary one.- You'll be working on them again and most likley sooner than you think. I played that game with those cheep systems. (Keep in mind, I pulled a car hauler for years with that truck, - so brakes were an issue. Temp fixes did not last.) - FINALLY, I did it up right, well, more than that lol. I gutted everything, even the hard lines lol. Yea, didn't mess around that time. In the end, the expense wasn't really that bad, honestly! It took a little time making up my own hard-lines, since that was a first. That was cheap tho. Hard-lines can be purchased in 25' rolls.

As OhioLariat mentioned, good Brembo rotors are cheaper than one would think. Very nice and heavy duty.

Anyway, when you get tired of screwing with the brakes, -you know what to do.

 

A temporary fix would have been to just lube the old one, like someone else said to do. There's noting wrong with the rotor, so I didn't replace it. I don't exist to keep parts stores in business.

 

Why is it that its always the passenger side caliper that sticks? Mine did this 2-3 times over a course of years (I just replaced it last week). Our ambulance did this, a friend just called me about his passenger side caliper sticking, and now you. Could it be a defect or crappy passenger side brake line hose?

 

That's weird. It probably has more to do with heat and or weight distribution.